Mr Kagame's life has been shaped by the conflict between Rwanda's Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups. In order to overcome this, his government now insists that people identify as Rwandans rather than ...

April 7 marks 30 years since the start of a genocide that would see nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus murdered in Rwanda. Scars on survivors' bodies remind Rwandans of the killings.

Umubyeyi Mairesse was hidden in the back of a truck under a sheet, with orphans sitting on her and her mother to conceal them when they were stopped at Hutu checkpoints. The Rwandan authorities ...

"Rwandan authorities have never sought to help bring the truth to light." Mr Habyarimana - a Hutu backed by France - was on his way back to Rwanda when his plane was shot down The plane carrying ...

Rwanda’s ethnic composition remains largely unchanged since 1994, with a Hutu majority. The Tutsis account for 14% and the Twa just 1% of Rwanda’s 14 million people. Kagame’s Tutsi-dominated ...

An Ordinary Man was then published in 2006. In it he described his early life in rural Rwanda in idyllic terms. He was one of nine children from a Hutu father and a Tutsi mother. He went on to ...

School was the first place that taught me the concept of Tutsi and Hutu. I attended a Catholic school but the national Rwandan Board of Education set the curriculum. During the first week of the ...

I turned to books written by colonial scholars and found a familiar narrative: Rwanda was first settled by the Twa, followed by the Hutu between the 5th and 11th centuries, and then the Tutsi in ...

The president and his close colleagues decided, however, to exaggerate the RPF threat as a way to pull dissident Hutu back to his side and they began portraying Tutsi inside Rwanda as RPF ...

In 1994, decades of politically motivated ethnic scapegoating culminated in a wholesale slaughter of the Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, along with many Hutu moderates. Vast numbers of ordinary citizens ...